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World Sight Day 2020 Photo Competition

by Public Health Update October 4, 2020

The World Sight Day Photo Competition is organised for World Sight Day to promote awareness about eye care and encourage people around the world to participate. The competition, open to professional and amateur photographers, is an opportunity to highlight eye health successes and also document unmet need.

The World Sight Day Photo Competition have been possible because of photographers from around the globe who have generously contributed their images. Over 4,000 eye care photos have been submitted since 2015.

The World Sight Day photo competition is live. IAPB encourages you to share photos that highlight the impact, the strength of our partnerships and highlight the importance of vision everywhere in the world.

World Sight Day 2020: Hope In Sight

by Public Health Update October 4, 2020

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World Sight Day (WSD) is an annual day of awareness held on the second Thursday of October, to focus global attention on blindness and vision impairment. World Sight Day 2020 is on 8 October 2020. World Sight Day was initiated by the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) and it became an official IAPB event in the year 2000.

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World Sight Day is a common platform for organisations to encourage governments, corporations, institutions and individuals to actively support universal access to eye health.

Theme 2020

The theme for World Sight Day is Hope In Sight.

The recent World Health Assembly resolution for eye health, marks the next major milestone for global eye health. With political commitment to take action to make eye care an integral part of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and to implement ‘integrated people-centred eye care’ there is #HopeInSight.

This World Sight Day, let’s find the solutions to ensure that everyone, everywhere has access to sight. Let’s pledge to spread the message of #HopeInSight.

Facts

Globally, at least 1 billion people have a near or distance vision impairment that could have been prevented or has yet to be addressed.
The leading causes of vision impairment and blindness are uncorrected refractive errors and cataracts.
The majority of people with vision impairment and blindness are over the age of 50 years.
Prevalence of vision impairment in many low- and middle-income regions is estimated to be four times higher than in high-income regions.

Causes

Globally, the leading causes of vision impairment are:

uncorrected refractive errors
cataract
age-related macular degeneration
glaucoma
diabetic retinopathy
corneal opacity
trachoma

Source of Info: WHO & International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB)

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WHO launches portal for global data on the health and well-being of older people

by Public Health Update October 3, 2020

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On the International Day of Older Persons, WHO launched the first data portal that brings together in one place data on global indicators for monitoring the health and well-being of people aged 60 and over.

Data is included for indicators such as: percentage of older people aged 60 years and over; healthy life expectancy at age 60; major causes of death in older people; prevalence of common impairments such as hearing and vision loss; percentage of older people receiving long-term care in residential facilities and in their home; and the percentage of older people living in an age-friendly environment. Also included are indicators for tracking the progress of government commitments to promote the health and well-being of older adults.

Data in the portal is disaggregated by age, sex and country to allow a comprehensive understanding of trends across different population groups, and to better manage progress towards global goals. Through maps, charts and tables, the portal offers tailored options for visualization and analysis of the data.

During the Decade of Healthy Ageing (2020-2030), endorsed by the World Health Assembly in August 2020, the portal will remain a gateway for accessing all global data related to older persons produced by WHO, other international organizations such as the UNDESA, the ILO, the World Bank and the OECD, as well as academic institutions such as the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.

By the end of 2020, users of the portal will be able to create country profiles as background for conducting situational analyses and initiating policy dialogues with stakeholders. Data will be updated as and when new estimates or information become available.

This information will strengthen the visibility of issues relating to the health and well-being of older people and should ultimately help inform and drive action for national policies and plans to support healthy ageing.

Data Portal

1 October 2020 (WHO)

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WHO COVID-19 Mass Gatherings Risk Assessment Training

by Public Health Update October 3, 2020

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Overview

The training describes the risk assessment exercise that WHO has developed to aid health authorities and event organizers in their planning for upcoming mass gatherings amid the current COVID-19 pandemic. WHO has developed a set of COVID-19 risk assessments tools dedicated to generic mass gatherings as well as to sports specific and religious specific mass gatherings. It should be noted, however, that general considerations and advice applicable to the organization of mass gatherings, and addressing risks of any origin, should also be taken into account when planning an event. These risk assessments provide a user-friendly way for health authorities and organizers to understand the level of risk an upcoming mass gathering may hold in further spreading COVID-19, both within a country and globally. All of the tools mentioned can be found on the WHO website. The course has been developed in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, WHO Collaborating Centre on Global Health Security.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, learners should be able to:

define mass gathering and the risk posed by it;
explain how a risk assessment can help with public health planning;
list the steps involved in:
- conducting a generic risk assessment for mass gatherings,
- conducting a risk assessment for religious mass gatherings,
- conducting a generic risk assessment for sporting mass gatherings; and
score risk associated with an upcoming mass gathering and identify ways to increase the safety of participants.

Course duration: Approximately 1 hour.

Certificates: A Confirmation of Participation will be available to participants who complete 100% of the course material.

Please note: The materials used in this course are currently being revised to reflect updates to the technical content. All course participants will be notified once these updates have been made.

Course contents

Module 1: Introduction to Mass Gathering Risk Assessment:By the end of this module, you will be able to: explain what a mass gathering is and describe the role of risk assessments and their role in public health planning.
Module 2: Generic Mass Gathering Risk Assessment:By the end of this module, you will be able to: list the steps involved in a generic mass gathering risk assessment; and determine an overall risk score using the WHO risk assessment tool and taking into account modification and mitigation measures.
Module 3: Sporting Mass Gathering Risk Assessment:By the end of this module, you will be able to: list the steps involved in a sporting mass gathering risk assessment; and determine an overall risk score using the WHO risk assessment tool and taking into account modification and mitigation measures.
Module 4: Religious Mass Gathering Risk Assessment:By the end of this module, you will be able to: list the steps involved in a religious mass gathering risk assessment; and determine an overall risk score using the WHO risk assessment tool and taking into account modification and mitigation measures.

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Online Course: Migration and Health: Enhancing Intercultural Competence and Diversity Sensitivity

by Public Health Update October 3, 2020

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Overview

The course is aimed at health authorities at national, subnational and local levels, as well as health care practitioners, researchers, patients and caregivers. It provides:

an accessible introduction to the key concepts underpinning intercultural competence and diversity sensitivity;
an overview of the types of action that can be taken to improve health care at organizational, systemic, professional and individual health care provider levels;
several case studies to examine methods and techniques that can be used to promote migrant participation at different stages of policy and practice; and
an overview of factors to be considered in any initiative developed to promote intercultural competence and diversity sensitivity in health care.

Learning objectives

By the end of this course, participants should be able to:

explain the need for interculturally competent and diversity-sensitive health care;
explain the importance of education and training in intercultural competence;
recognize the importance of trained interpreters and intercultural mediators in health care; and
identify the practical and ethical issues affecting the migrant patients through community participation.

Course duration: Approximately 2 hours 20 minutes.

Certificates: Participants can gain a Record of Achievement by earning at least 80% on the final assessment.

Course contents

Module 1 – Introduction:By the end of this module, participants should be able to: discuss the challenges faced by health services due to migration of culturally diverse populations; explain the need for interculturally competent and diversity-sensitive health care; and define the key terms relating to heterogeneous groups mentioned in the toolkit.
Module 2 – Intercultural Competence and Diversity Sensitivity:By the end of this module, participants should be able to: define the key concepts related to cultural competence; explain why interculturally competent and diversity-sensitive health care is necessary; and describe the four-dimensional model for increasing intercultural competence and diversity sensitivity in the health sector.
Module 3 – Health Sector Responses:By the end of this module, participants should be able to: explain the importance of education and training in intercultural competence; recognize the importance of trained interpreters in health care; and identify the role of intercultural mediators.
Module 4: Community Participation:By the end of this module, participants should be able to: explain the importance of participatory approaches in health care; identify the practical and ethical issues affecting migrant patients through community participation; and identify and explain the tools used in different stages of health care.
Module 5 – Key Questions for Policy-makers and Practitioners:By the end of this module, participants should be able to: identify the key questions that need to be asked at different domains to work towards intercultural competence and diversity sensitivity.
Final Assessment

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Online Course: Occupational health and safety for health workers in the context of COVID-19

by Public Health Update October 3, 2020

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Overview

In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, working conditions for health workers may deteriorate. In addition to the risks of infection with COVID-19, health workers continue to experience other occupational health and safety risks of biological, physical or psychosocial nature. Therefore, for the protection of physical and mental health, safety and well-being of health workers, WHO recommends a combination of measures for infection prevention and control, occupational health and safety and psychosocial support.

Health workers participating in pandemic response are exposed to many different occupational risks to health and safety. These include: COVID-19 infection, illness, and transmission to others; fatigue from working longer hours and heavy workload, insufficient sleep or rest, dehydration, and inadequate nutrition; musculoskeletal injury from handling of patients and heavy objects, prolonged work while using personal protective equipment which can cause heat stress, skin and mucosal damage; workplace violence and stigma, and a variety of mental health problems, emotional distress and occupational burn-out.

The target audience for this course is health workers, incident managers, supervisors and administrators who make policies and protocols for their health facilities.

Learning objectives

By the end of this course, you should be able to:

describe the most common occupational risks to health and safety to which health workers are exposed while responding to the COVID-19 pandemic;
describe the rights of health workers to decent working conditions;
describe how to apply measures for protecting their health and safety and actively propose improvements; and
access and use supportive services for protection of health and safety of health workers.

Course duration: Approximately 1 hour.

Certificates: A Record of Achievement certificate will be available to participants who score at least 80% of the total points available across all of the quizzes.

Course contents

Introduction:This introductory module gives an overview of occupational health and safety in the context of COVID-19.
Module 1: Infectious risks to health and safety:By the end of this module, you should be able to: explain how health workers can be exposed to infectious hazards; describe how respiratory infections and bloodborne pathogens are transmitted to health workers; and describe the steps that health workers can take to protect themselves from respiratory infections: standard precautions and control measures to prevent different infections.
Module 2: Physical risks to health and safety:By the end of this module, you should be able to: list the major risk factors for musculoskeletal disorders in the health sector; describe high risk activities when handling patients; and describe the major types of occupational hazards that health workers face and how to prevent them.
Module 3: Psychosocial risks to health and safety:By the end of this module, you should be able to: list the major sources of psychosocial risks for health workers; describe the signs of fatigue and how to prevent it; describe the risk factors, signs and preventive actions for workplace violence; and describe how health workers and managers can protect and support mental health.
Module 4: Basic occupational health and safety in health services:By the end of this module, you should be able to: describe the responsibilities of employers and managers in occupational health safety and describe actions that can be taken by health workers to promote occupational health and safety.

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Online Course: Long-term care facilities in the context of COVID-19

by Public Health Update October 3, 2020

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Online Course: Long-term care facilities in the context of COVID-19

Overview

The COVID-19 pandemic affects older people disproportionately, especially those living in long-term care facilities (LTCF) with significant impact on mortality and morbidity. Concerted action is needed to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 by enhancing infection prevention and control (IPC) measures within LTCF. In many countries, long-term care facilities have weak IPC systems and training in place and staff lack the access to information on limiting transmission in the context of COVID-19. Strengthening IPC practice is crucial to prevent spread of COVID-19. The COVID-19 Infection Prevention and Control Communication Toolkit for Long-Term Care Facilities provides simple and actionable visuals for staff, residents and visitors with key IPC messages. The COVID-19 Preparedness Checklist is a tool consisting of several elements that are crucial for preparing LTCF for COVID-19. It can be used by facility administrators, IPC focal points or staff, internal or external professionals.

This course consists of 4 modules that address infection prevention and control measures to support LTCF in the context of COVID-19.

Learning objectives

By the end of this course, participants should be able to:

Describe infection prevention and control principles and practices relevant to long-term care facilities for patient and staff safety during COVID-19
Apply the COVID-19 Long-term Care Facility Checklist to their place of work
Identify practices to safely manage long-term care facility residents during COVID-19
Understand how to support themselves and each other as staff of long-term care facilities during COVID-19

Course duration: Approximately 2 hours.

Certificates: A Record of Achievement will be available to participants who score at least 80% of the total points available across all of the quizzes.

Course contents

Module 1: COVID-19 Infection Prevention and Control Package for Long-Term Care Facilities:By the end of this module, you should be able to: describe how infectious diseases can be spread; explain how to prevent spread of infectious diseases; describe how COVID-19 is spread; explain how to prevent the spread of COVID-19
Module 2: Performing the COVID-19 Preparedness Checklist for Long-Term Care Facilities:By the end of this module, you should be able to: understand the purpose of the preparedness checklist; describe the process for use the checklist; use the checklist in the long-term care facility; identify and prioritise items that need to be addressed
Module 3: Caring for Residents of Long-Term Care Facilities during COVID-19:By the end of this module, you should be able to: understand how to manage the care of residents to prevent spread of COVID-19; understand how to manage the long-term care facility environment to prevent spread of COVID-19; describe how to prevent visitors spreading COVID-19 in long-term care facilities
Module 4: Protection and Support of Staff of Long-Term Care Facilities during COVID-19:By the end of this module, you should be able to: describe how you can protect yourself in the workplace from COVID-19; identify how to protect yourself outside of the workplace; understand your options to cope with stress.

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The Global Implementation Conference (GIC) 2021

by Public Health Update October 2, 2020

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The Global Implementation Conference (GIC) is one of the world’s leading implementation conferences. Hosted biennially by the Global Implementation Society (GIS), the conference aims to promote implementation science, practice, and policy and their active application in human services in order to contribute to socially significant benefits to people and society. Previous GIC Conferences have engaged delegates from 25 countries representing a wide range of disciplines. With a focus on addressing equity and building capacity throughout the world, GIC 2021 will continue to engage the expanding global implementation community through dialogue and interactive learning opportunities.

The conference will feature cutting edge implementation research and real-world application of implementation practice and policy in diverse contexts and help to overcome inequity in human service systems by targeting its root causes.

Audience

Our conference audience includes individuals and organizations that use, evaluate, support, and promote effective implementation practices. The core audience for the GIC include the “changemakers” within systems, including implementation specialists, applied researchers, quality improvement managers, purveyors, intermediaries, implementing organizations, implementation networks, funders, policy makers, decision makers, and students. The GIC emphasizes the application of implementation science and effective implementation practices at its core, with implementation research serving a foundation for translating evidence to applied settings.

Explore

GIC 2021 will explore a wide range of topics over four days of lecture, interactive workshop sessions, storyboard sessions, and networking events, including:

Systems thinking in implementation design
Scaling and sustainment
Equity and inclusiveness
Implementation capacity and readiness assessment
Cross-cultural fidelity and adaptation
Cost-effectiveness measurement and tools
Leadership and change management
Implementation capacity and readiness assessment
Using technology in high- and low-resource settings
Implementation strategy selection/intervention mapping

The GIC 2021 conference program is designed to engage delegates in a learning and networking experience that facilitates:

Sharing of lessons learned from implementation work
Expanding networks between people working in a variety of disciplines, systems, and regions of the world
Increasing knowledge of implementation science to inform improvements in systems, organizations, and communities
Understanding how to apply implementation frameworks, strategies, practices, and tools to achieve socially significant improvements

To achieve these objectives, presenters are encouraged to develop sessions that emphasize:

Authentic and interactive engagement of delegates
Listening and learning that is solution-focused
Applied learning with the goal to actively use newly acquired knowledge, skills, and tools post-conference

This Call for Proposals

This Call for Proposals invites presenters from the global implementations community to submit proposals for a virtual storyboard forum pairing brief video overviews with visual abstracts and a chat feature to allow interaction with attendees around the world.

Deadline: October 16, 2020

Key Dates

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION OPEN	September 8, 2020
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION CLOSED	October 16, 2020 5:00 pm U.S. Eastern Time
NOTIFICATION DISTRIBUTION	November 30, 2020
REGISTRATION GOES LIVE	December 8, 2020

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Dissemination & Implementation Short Course 2020

by Public Health Update October 2, 2020

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The University of Wisconsin Madison Institute for Clinical and Translational Research’s Dissemination and Implementation Launchpad invites you to Integrate Implementation Strategies & Context to your research!

This free 3-day virtual short course features CFIR (Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research) expert Laura Damschroeder and ERIC (Expert Recommendations for Implementing Change) expert Byron Powell as visiting faculty. They will lead workshop and panel sessions to elucidate how to meaningfully use these frameworks. They will also hold feedback meetings where they will provide individual insights on your projects.

2020 Visiting Faculty

LAURA DAMSCHRODER, MPH, MS
BYRON POWELL, PhD

Overview of course

CFIR Case Studies Panel
Small Group Breakout Sessions CFIR (abstract required for selection)
Introduction to Implementation Strategies Session
Implementation Strategies Case Studies Panel
Interactive Small Group Breakout Sessions – Implementation Strategies (abstract required for selection)
Identifying Implementation Strategies to Address Contextual Barriers: ERIC – CFIR Matching Tool Session
Identifying Implementation Strategies to Address Contextual Barriers: ERIC – CFIR Case Study Panel
Emerging D&I Priorities and Methodology Innovations
Individualized Project Feedback with Short Course Faculty (abstract required for selection)

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Courses European Region PostDoc

Postdoc in Clinical Diabetes Epidemiology, Denmark

by Public Health Update October 2, 2020

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The Research Unit of Steno Diabetes Center Odense (SDCO), Odense University Hospital and the Department of Clinical Research at the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Southern Denmark (SDU), invites applications for a postdoc position for 3 years to be filled as soon as possible.

The Danish Center for Strategic Research in Type 2 Diabetes (DD2) Cohort and Biobank has since 2010 followed more than 9,000 new onset type 2 diabetes patients and the inclusion is still ongoing. The DD2 cohort is managed by the SDCO, and Department of Clinical Epidemiology (DCE) at Aarhus University is responsible for data management and the statistical analyses.

It is the vision of the SDCO and DCE to further develop and integrate the DD2 Cohort and Biobank as a unique resource for diabetes research in Denmark and internationally with other biobanks, longitudinal cohorts, and newly available data sources such as computerized electronic medical records and wearable health technology.

Research tasks

The postdoc position is a joint position at SDCO and DCE at Aarhus University to strengthen research in the field of clinical diabetes epidemiology and registry research at SDCO.

Applicants will be expected to conduct independent research of internationally leading quality in the field, and will be expected to have good writing skills and publications of their previous work in internationally leading journals. Applicants should be energetic, productive and ambitious, and at the same time have strong social and collaboration skills.

For a period of up to one year, the postdoc will be expected to further develop skills in epidemiology and biostatistics. This educational part of the position will take place at DCE at Aarhus University Hospital.

The postdoc will also be expected to develop and conduct independent scientific research in the field of clinical epidemiology of metabolic diseases, complications and prognosis of type 2 diabetes, using the DD2 Cohort and other linked Danish medical databases and registries, and also to

Come up with new ideas for research projects
Write research protocols and statistical analysis plans
Write grant applications
Participate in teaching and supervision of young researchers and other staff in clinical epidemiology
Write competitive papers for international peer-reviewed journals
Participate and presenting at national and international research meetings

The successful candidate

has obtained a PhD degree within the last 5 years relevant to the above-mentioned research project,
has relevant publications in international peer-reviewed journals within the field
has relevant publications in international peer-reviewed journals within the field
can document strong skills and experience in the fields of clinical diabetes research, epidemiology and/or biostatistics.

Applicants will be assessed based on their scientific expertise and the scientific quality and novelty of their former projects in the context of diabetes research, epidemiology, and/or biostatistics.

The successful candidate will be employed at the Research Unit of SDCO, Department of Clinical Research, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Southern Denmark

Further information can be obtained from

Head of Research, SDCO professor Kurt Højlund, phone: +45 2532 0648, email Kurt.Hoejlund@rsyd.dk

Read more about the position and apply online directly from the job ad here:

https://www.sdu.dk/en/service/ledige_stillinger/1128514

Application deadline: November 1, 2020

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